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In hostels around Durban area [Giblands, Wemmer] there’s history of antagonism towards AmaMpondo on the logic of “migrant labourers displacing Natal job seekers.” The anti-immigrant riots in Durban central can eventually reignite that fire when the ‘Africans’ have been booted out
Similar local histories exist in the Gauteng region too. The scramble for access to jobs and other economic opportunities in a declining economy has put a target on the backs of African immigrants from other countries. It will soon scale down to ‘local immigrant’ identities.
“Whose Gauteng is it anyway?” is a question that even comes up in internal political party discourses. “We can’t have a councilor who is a Chama Station. We were born ekasi and must be led by one of our own.” This can easily degenerate to a “mabagoduke” fallout
In Nelson Mandela Metro, actually, there have always been murmurs about people born at ‘Dora Nginza’ or those who came for employment/studying. The sense of having ‘the first right of claim’ to local opportunities is not limited to ‘international immigrants.’
If we allow - shortcut approach to a failing national economy, we’ll be in trouble. Those beating up the anti-immigrant war drums will, once again, descend into a Bantustan type logic: Xhosa to EC, Zulu to KZN, Tswana to NW, Venda/Pedi/Tsonga to LP. “Whose Gauteng is it, anyway?”
Enacting violence against “the other” [currently being the ‘African immigrant’] may seem distant now. Eventually, it will gobble all of us up. Suddenly we will be very much aware of what tribe, language and birthplace we associate with. Scenes when we start burning each other up
It would also be funny, if it weren’t tragic, to see if the anti-immigrants have ever asked for documentation from European migrants. This is it: white people presumably can never be ‘illegal’ or even ‘foreign.’ “Foreigner” only applies to the dark skinned, chile 
